Profile of a Crime

John MacDonald sheds light on the Trayvon Martin case and the impact it's making on the public.

April 25, 2012

Brea Stover

The Trayvon Martin case is the latest chapter in a difficult story of race, crime and justice in America, as John MacDonald, Associate Professor and Chair of Criminology, will tell you. MacDonald, whose research has included studies of how race and ethnicity impact the ways our criminal justice system responds to crime, shares some observations on the case and the public’s reaction to it.